Sex Addiction Therapy
Sex Addiction Therapy
Green Pastures Healing & Recovery
Sex addiction and compulsive sexual behaviors can feel isolating, confusing, and deeply shame-filled. Many individuals struggle silently for years, caught between unwanted behaviors and the fear of being truly known. Sex addiction therapy offers a confidential, compassionate, and structured space to break these cycles and move toward freedom, integrity, and restored connection.
This work is not about moral failure—it is about healing the wounds that drive the behavior and rebuilding the capacity for emotional and relational safety.
What Is Sex Addiction Therapy?
Sex addiction therapy is a specialized form of treatment that helps individuals understand and interrupt compulsive sexual behaviors such as pornography use, affairs, chronic infidelity, anonymous sexual encounters, excessive fantasy, or other out-of-control sexual patterns.
These behaviors rarely exist in isolation. They are often connected to trauma, attachment wounds, emotional neglect, shame, loneliness, anxiety, depression, or relational rupture. Therapy focuses not only on stopping behavior, but on healing what the behavior has been attempting to regulate, soothe, or escape.
My Clinical Approach
My work with sex addiction is relational, trauma-informed, and attachment-based. I integrate structure, accountability, and compassion—because true recovery requires all three.
I do not view sex addiction as a moral defect or lack of willpower. I understand it as a survival strategy that formed in moments of unmet emotional needs, distress, or disconnection. While I offer deep empathy for the pain beneath the behavior, I also provide clear challenge and accountability for behavior change and relational repair.
While my approach is faith-integrated, I deeply respect and honor the religious or non-religious presentation of every client. Your values, beliefs, and goals guide the work we do together. Faith is never imposed and is only integrated when it aligns with your personal recovery goals.
What Sex Addiction Therapy Looks Like
Sessions are structured, intentional, and focused on both insight and action. Therapy may include:
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Identifying compulsive sexual patterns and triggers
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Understanding the emotional and relational roots of the addiction
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Developing tools for impulse control and relapse prevention
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Addressing shame, secrecy, and identity confusion
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Processing trauma and attachment wounds
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Building emotional regulation and distress tolerance
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Establishing healthy boundaries and accountability systems
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Preparing for disclosure and relational repair when applicable
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Supporting long-term recovery and integrity
Recovery is not just about behavior management—it is about becoming emotionally present, honest, and whole.
Who Sex Addiction Therapy Is For
Sex addiction therapy is appropriate for individuals who struggle with:
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Pornography addiction
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Chronic infidelity or affairs
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Compulsive sexual behaviors
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Anonymous or risky sexual behavior
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Sexual fantasy addiction
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Emotional avoidance through sexuality
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Shame-based sexual patterns
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Relapse after periods of sobriety
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Faith-related sexual conflict
This work is also often paired with couples therapy when betrayal or relational trauma is present.
A Space That Is Both Safe and Challenging
Sex addiction recovery requires both emotional safety and direct accountability. I offer a therapeutic space that is compassionate and steady, while also providing the challenge needed to disrupt destructive patterns. My role is to help you build insight, responsibility, emotional maturity, and relational integrity.
Session Format
Sex addiction therapy is offered in individual sessions and may be paired with couples therapy depending on relational needs and treatment goals.
Getting Started
If you are feeling overwhelmed, ashamed, or unsure how to begin, you are not alone. Reaching out is a courageous first step toward change.
You may contact me through the contact form or email directly at:
Audreymalacaracounseling@gmail.com
I strive to respond to all inquiries within 24 hours.
Thank you for considering Green Pastures Healing & Recovery as a place for recovery, restoration, and freedom.